Job 9 · Verse 28

Job 9:28

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job 9:28, King James Version

Job 9:28 in other translations

BSBI would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
WEBI am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
ASVI am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
YLTI have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.
DARBYI am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
BBEI go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.
WebsterI am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

What does Job 9:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
28. The apodosis to Job 9:27--"If I say, &c." "I still am afraid of all my sorrows (returning), for I know that thou wilt (dost) (by removing my sufferings) not hold or declare me innocent. How then can I leave off my heaviness?"

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows - Coverdale translates, after the Vulgate, Then am I afrayed of all my workes. Even were I to cease from complaining, I fear lest not one of my works, however well intentioned, would stand thy scrutiny, or meet with thy approbation. Thou wilt not hold me innocent - Coverdale, after the Vulgate, For I knowe thou favourest not an evil doer; but this is not the sense of the original: Thou wilt not acquit me so as to take away my afflictions from me.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 9:25-35

What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time continues! The remembrance of having done our duty will be pleasing afterwards; so will not the remembrance of having got worldly wealth, when it is all lost and gone. Job's complaint of God, as one that could not be appeased and…

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Job 9:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יָגֹ֥רְתִּיya.Go.re.tiI dreadH3025
כָל\־khol-allH3605
עַצְּבֹתָ֑י'a.tze.vo.Taipains myH6094
יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּיya.Da'.tiI knowH3045
כִּי\־ki-thatH3588
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
תְנַקֵּֽנִי\׃te.na.Ke.niyou will acquit meH5352

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 9:28

  • Psalms 119:120

    My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

  • Psalms 88:15-16

    I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

  • Job 9:20-21

    If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

  • Job 14:16

    For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

  • Job 10:14

    If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

  • Job 7:21

    And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • Job 21:6

    Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

  • Job 3:25

    For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

  • Psalms 130:3

    If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

  • Job 9:2

    I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

  • Exodus 20:7

    Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
afraid.
21:6; Ps 88:15,16; 119:120
I know.
2,20,21; 14:16; Ex 20:7; Ps 130:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 9:27

    If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

  • Job 9:28

    I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

  • Job 9:29

    If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

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Job 9:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Contúrbanme todos mis trabajos; sé que no me darás por libre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Je suis épouvanté de tous mes tourments; je sais que tu ne me tiendras pas pour innocent.
German
Elberfelder 1871		so bangt mir vor allen meinen Schmerzen; ich weiß, daß du mich nicht für schuldlos halten wirst.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Verebar omnia opera mea, sciens quod non parceres delinquenti.